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If you could only have one book to read, from now onwards, what book would it be, and why?
  • My first thought was to pick the longest book I know of, which is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I think the PDF version is 2000 pages. Not really sure I want to reread it, though. So maybe the book I've reread the most times, which would be 11/22/63 by Stephen King. What a fantastic book.

  • Why openSUSE?
  • Tumbleweed user here. I have no idea how to compile additional kernel modules. I do keep track of what's changed on every update, though, but that's because I find it exciting. Seeing that update icon in the morning makes me happy. I am sure you don't need to care as much about it as I do. You can upgrade every now and then without looking too close, and be very happy

  • good luck little buddy, see you in 5 years
  • I'm still trying out different editors from time to time. I always feel like they are lacking in some way in comparison to Emacs. Like, when there's no key binding to focus the list of references, or one cannot navigate to the beginning of a block, or one cannot navigate by subword. Let's not forget sexp. Cannot live without it. Or marks, for that matter. Or proper clipboard history that is properly searchable. It's like the developers has not seen the light yet. Most editors are very mouse driven, and maybe does not focus enough on actual code navigation. I'm biased of course. Though, Helix seems cool.

    Side note: Even though I use Emacs, I have nothing against Vim. Heck, I even use it every now and then.

  • What's the worst way you ever broke production?
  • Table locks can be a real pain. You know you need to do the change, but the system is constantly running queries towards it. Now days it's a bit easier with algorithm=inplace and lock=none, but in the good old days you were on your own. Your only friend was luck. Large migrations like that still gives me shivers

  • What's the worst way you ever broke production?
  • Two things pop up

    • I once left an alert() asking "what the fuck?". That was mostly laughed upon, so no worry.
    • I accidentally dropped the production database and replaced it by the staging one. That was not laughed upon.
  • What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
  • Been using Qwant for maybe a year or so. Recently found Swisscows too. I am not sure if Qwant uses their own index. I remember that they said that they were to create their own index, but the results looks suspiciously similar to Bing. Swisscows for sure runs their own index, and I find the results to be rather good